DEPARTMENT OF STATIS TICS
BUCHTEL COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
330.972.6886 (TELEPHONE)
Course Description
3470:261
Introduction to Statistics I
2 credits
Prerequisite: Placement test (ACT >= 21, SAT >= 500 or Compass 1-ALG >= 85
or Compass 2-CAG >= 0 or Compass 4-TRG >= 0)
Course Description: Descriptive statistics, tabular and graphical data displays;
probability, probability distributions. Introduction to statistical inference (hypothesis
testing, estimation); one-sample parametric and nonparametric methods. Computer
applications.
Course Topics:
Introduction; types of data; measurement scales
Tabular and graphical data summaries
Numerical descriptive measures
Bivariate data
Concepts of probability
Random sampling
Probability distributions; types of random variables
Discrete random variables
Continuous random variables; normal distributions
Sampling distributions
Central limit theorem
One-sample inference about central tendency
Fall 2014